Island Sanctuary: Separate Instance Servers

[LianaThorne]

Haven't had issues for the past two days regardless of what time of day I try to get into my house or island on Adamantoise nor heard complaints from anyone who wasn't from Balmung tbh.

[GeminiReed]

Haven't had issues for the past two days regardless of what time of day I try to get into my house or island on Adamantoise nor heard complaints from anyone who wasn't from Balmung tbh.

Not really worth complaining about tbh. The congestion is temporary. Give it a week or two and pretty much everybody will be going "what congestion?" I think most folks understand this.

I needed a mat from the Allagan Supply Node in our FC house but I couldn't get in. Of course it was irritating but not something worthy of banging a shoe on a podium over. I suppose if I was in the mood to do some decorating or had some timed task that needed doing I'd be a bit more put out.

[Angellos]

I am not leaving a medium house behind, and all of my friends, and all of my apartments, to move to another data-center. Why? Because there's less level 1 ERP alts from other servers in their Quicksands?

'Transfer servers' is not a response: It's a cheap cop-out. Not everyone is on Balmung for bunny boys in 2B boots and level 1 ERP alts. Some of us are here because it's the most populated RP server (For normal roleplay.)

There's plenty of people on Balmung who have been here since the beginning, and this is where all of our friends, our FC, and our houses are. There's plenty of other servers on the aether data-center experiencing the same problems. This is way worse than it was when all of the new Ishgard housing wards were released. I could still get into my house after just a few tries. I had to spam the door for almost an hour tonight just to get in. Then another 30 minutes to get into my workshop. By the time I got into my FC house, my wrist was sore. Imagine only having 2 hours to play but an hour and a half of it is spent just trying to send your airships back out.

I guess I'm just baffled that there's millions of new players, but zero resources are allocated towards hardware expansion so that instances of 'you can't enter this area due to server congestion' don't happen anymore for anyone.

Plain and simple it's a hardware allocation issue. The game COULD have instanced housing for everyone: If we had the hardware allocation for it. (But this has shown me to not even attempt it until that happens.)

[Rolder50]

See it from the bright side, next week most people will be alraedy bored with it and spend much much less time in those, thus freeing instances.
But yeah it absolutely sucks not being able to enter your house cause of it, though I didn't have that problem myself.

I dunno, between bots and people going semi-afk on the island, I kinda doubt it.

[Nyxs]

They should be giving a an actual fix for it and no people shouldn’t have to uproot themselves to go in their home or fc. Just for your information there is people on Balmung that have been there since 2.0 that dont rp or erp and just play there like every other person *rollseyes*

[Tlamila]

I dunno, between bots and people going semi-afk on the island, I kinda doubt it.

There's a difference between bots, afk people, and few others, compared to "it's a shiny brand new function and literally everybody's checking it out". Some peple will drop it altogether, some others will still living in it 24/7, some others who only came back for patch will go back to not playing at all.
It's like for expansion queueues: yeah queues are huge and unbearable but yu know they'll be gone in a matter of weeks. Even though the bots keep being logged whole time, and people just afk overnight, causing there to always be a queue even of 10 people, it's nothing comparable to the thousands of people in queue on expansion. Same will be for island, and I don't think it's worth spending money on a very temporary problem.

[LaylaTsarra]

Balmung is kind of a joke right now. I spent 10 minutes clicking before i got in yesterday.

[Sforze]

Maybe...just maybe...stop expecting different things from the most congested server of all time which is only thanks to the incredible fact that Balmung is the ERP hotspot for...well...the whole game? Maybe just maybe you should focus more on the fact why you are playing on the server that is known as the Tinder of Eorzea and next time when you have the feeling you can't get into things swipe left and play on a different datacenter.

Try to transfer to a different server, somewhere where the grass is greener and the floor is less sticky. Where catgirls don't emote on each other in every corner of the world and where houses are actually available cause half the population of the server doesn't feel like they have to create another brothel. If you want to live in New Vegas then get used to the traffic i would say.

You're trying to be glib here, but this is an outrageously silly, nonsensical attitude. Balmung is a legacy server that housed the RP community as a whole long before it became the most tired meme anyone still thinks is clever or funny, and even if that by and large wasn't the case, new players don't exactly have indications of what unofficial server culture is which before they choose where to land. Those people also have a right to expect the game's advertised features to reliably function even if people who want to keep beating the same dead joke horse don't want to give up their only comedy material.

Expecting a reasonable level of service for a product you're paying for is not asking for too much. If "new features should not make old features inaccessible" is too entitled an attitude for you, good on you for being a standardless consumer who will uncritically jump out in front of a corporate entity to shield it from criticism, but functionality is a baseline axis on which to judge a product when you're spending your money on it in literally every other industry in the world. This isn't a charity, it's a business. MMOs aren't a gift to you that you're lucky to receive, you are paying a multimillion dollar video game company for a product they are trying to sell to you. It's okay to have warm and fuzzy feelings about them if they make something you like (and I do love this game), but you can also hold them to an extremely basic standard at the same time, I promise.

[Snowborn]

Maybe...just maybe...stop expecting different things from the most congested server of all time which is only thanks to the incredible fact that Balmung is the ERP hotspot for...well...the whole game? Maybe just maybe you should focus more on the fact why you are playing on the server that is known as the Tinder of Eorzea and next time when you have the feeling you can't get into things swipe left and play on a different datacenter.

Try to transfer to a different server, somewhere where the grass is greener and the floor is less sticky. Where catgirls don't emote on each other in every corner of the world and where houses are actually available cause half the population of the server doesn't feel like they have to create another brothel. If you want to live in New Vegas then get used to the traffic i would say.

There are so many problems with this argument, first and foremost that the instance server pool that Balmung dips from aren't just for Balmung, but all of Crystal. So everyone on Crystal is having problems. If this isn't the case, then Square should probably allocate more resources for Balmung or turn off world visit while things aren't functioning, but I'm pretty sure it is. But furthermore Balmung doesn't even have a higher native population than other worlds anymore because they've locked it down, nor do we have more houses than anyone else.

This problem isn't new. It has nothing to do with the chip shortage, Balmung, or any other excuses you want to make. It's been going on since Stormblood launched. This is the Great Raubahn Wall all over again and it's caused by failures in content design. Both the MSQ and Island Sanctuary have players hanging out in solo instances for hours. This is the source of the problem.

It could have been alleviated in a number of ways and not all of them require the purchase of hardware.

[ThaCa]

Feels good on a new server.